Myanmar

Red, saffron yellow …

Ancient kingdom with a thousand pagodas, Burma, mystic country allying wisdom with Nirvana, could have been that of Gautama*.
But the wheel of the law** took on a different form, that of the indoctrination conducted by the military dictatorship.

Since 1962, the despotic regimes follow one another up to the last one » officially » fallen in 2011.
In 1989, under the name SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council), since coming to power, the junta renamed the country Myanmar.
Later become the SPDC (State Peace and Development Council), under cover of a huge masquerade to which some high dignitaries Buddhist monks got allied, the junta continues an unprecedented policy of repression.

In 2007, young nuns and monks protest for the first time against the powers that be. Several waves will succeed each other, and worth them the name of saffron waves.

More than three years after the fall of the junta, the military Diaspora still is omnipresent, conveying its dictates with the complicity of fundamentalist monks.

The rumor spreading sows trouble and hatred within their followers against the Muslim minorities ; today, the interreligious conflict has become an unceasing massacre on which the red color has replaced the saffron yellow.

Myanmar

* Siddhartha Gautama or Buddha (the Awake) was born in Lumbinï, Nepal. He is the spiritual leader and the founder of the

** The Dharmachakra or Wheel of Buddhist Law represents the four periods of Buddha’s life leading to the path of the awakening. It symbolizes the spiritual growth that leads to compassion for all forms of existence. It is the Buddhist version of the Vishnu disk.